O’siyo. For the first time in history, American Indian art work displayed at the Denver Art Museum has been attributed to the individual artists as oppossed to just their tribes.

Excerpt: “It is a revolution in museum practice that many scholars hope will spread, raising the stature of American Indian artists and elevating their work from the category of artifacts to the more exalted realm of art…So the museum’s “Wild Man of the Woods” mask, made in 1900 and previously identified only as “Kwakiutl,” will be attributed to Willie Seaweed, a Canadian carver who died in 1967the Denver museum has now embraced attribution more completely and comprehensively than any other institution.”